The Return of the Beacon
✨ "Don't be evil." Yesterday, Google made an unexpected move to reignite the love it had lost.
Indeed, you might remember the 2000s, when Google was David against the Goliaths of the time.
It promised a different path.
One where access to information was universal. Between YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Google is not just a search engine; it is a gateway to the world's knowledge, free and accessible to all. 🚀
Google was a company but one with a special aura, it was a beacon of "good".
But, with its growth, Google has become a titan, dealing with multiple conflicting imperatives 🌍
And so the positive aura has been a bit lost.
Yesterday, Google dropped Gemma, a range of open-source, small but state-of-the-art AI models.
Behind the tech perf, it's a strategic statement. Gemma is a storyline of redemption. 🌈 "We're still those guys."
With Meta playing strong the open-source game, and OpenAI the proprietary one, they go like Mistral with a mixed one:
big powerful closed models (Gemini)
smaller but still very competent open LLMs (Gemma)
👩💻 Now, over to you, do you think Gemma signal a strategic shift?
Text drafted through a chat with an AI model. Visual: Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 3.
Transformation and final editing by Jean-Paul Paoli.